Gadgetory

water cooling parts for skunk works were provided by performance pcs for the largest online selection of PC modding and water cooling parts head to performance pcs comm well guys after more than a solid week of building and prepping and redoing things skunk works version three point seven to six item I I keep track of how many times we changed this system but whatever it is it's done you you in terms of performance nothing's really changed when it comes to performance parts in fact I haven't even tried to see if I can overclock my 5960 ex any farther on the gigabyte x99 SOC champion motherboard that I'm using here which is got those extra pins in there that you know asus has put on some of their motherboards which is supposed to allow for better stability and higher overclocks maybe I'll play with that in a little bit but folks so far hitting 4.6 gigahertz which is what I had on the EVGA motherboard has been absolutely no problem whatsoever didn't take any custom tweaking or anything like that the memory was was running at 2666 right now even though it's 3,000 megahertz dims I haven't tried to really fine-tune anything I just went to the settings that I knew worked still running the same 3 3 Way Titan X is in there running about fourteen hundred megahertz they are fifteen hundred megahertz stable but I'm trying to keep the heat down just a little bit because even though I have a 560 millimeter and 280 millimeter red I'm still getting out there so quite a bit of heat that dumps into there now but one of the things I want to say is that I did have some discussions with some of the folks in Mayhem's trying to figure out why my GPU temperature loops around GPU temperatures in the loops were getting hotter and hotter and they did tell me that as the nano particles start to break down and change color like you were seeing and they're absorbing all of the crud that was happening in the loop which we still don't know exactly what it is the effective cooling of the pastel does actually diminish so it actually was the fluid that was causing the temperatures to go up but what caused the temperature are the fluids to break down we still don't know yet and in fact even even given all the crap that's going on with them this week I'm still going to work with them to try and figure out what the problem is because that would be very useful information for you guys as a community and it's definitely an obligation of mine to make sure that we can figure this out since I have some of the clues here to try and make a better product the only port the parts that changed in here obviously three new water blocks so with clearings I thought they would look really really good I like the way they look they look fantastic as far as I'm learn the clear CPU block and then we added the motherboard into the mix now the south or the I call a coupon Southbridge the chipset is actually running about 25 degrees Celsius under load and then the vrm is actually running a 30 degrees Celsius under load overclocked so obviously the including of the motherboard in the loop was not necessary but much more effective than running air cooling in there in fact the temperatures don't really seem to change they always seem to be pretty constant at those temperatures whether under load or not now with the air cooling and the massive heat pipes and stuff that they had on this motherboard it's only about 15 to 20 degrees Celsius lower than as it is if it was air cooled it's one of those things what was like might as well at least include it in the loop now of course the main thing I checked and I let run for hours actually was Valley benchmark and then I did some fire strike and stuff no scores didn't change obviously the hardware didn't really change I'm still getting about a forty six thousand graphic scores like 45 thousand and some change when overclocked that's a pretty big deal on fire strike if you ask me a 45,000 GPU score total score for the system is right around 30,000 at the normal fire strike normal and for extreme and all that and run those tests yet but again like I said the hardware is the same but so I don't expect it to be any different but the temperature is prior to fleshing the loop and changing out the blocks and all that stuff changing out the fluid we were seeing a max temperature of 63 degrees Celsius on the hottest card which is the one that the monitor is attached to and then I was seeing anywhere between 55 and 58 degrees Celsius on the other two cards which with for water-cooled setup and that was without overclocking because as the temperatures increased in the notice that things were getting really hot in that loop I kept bringing down the clocks to our O's all the way back to stock and those temperatures were at stock speeds I knew something was wrong but now today I have actually let Valley benchmark run for almost a day I let it run for a solid day got up in the morning loaded it up opened up the door in the window in here so we could have some airflow and then later last night actually I turned it off and the max temperature recorded while overclocked to fourteen hundred megahertz yeah the cards were capable of fifteen hundred but I'm only doing 1400 was seeing a max temp forty-four see on the main card and anywhere between 34 and 36 see on the other two cards and then when it came to stock speeds it was ridiculously low it was like 36 see on the main card and 32 for both of the other cards so temperatures are obviously doing very very well but performance wise it's pretty much all the same part so performance didn't really change I'm still getting about a forty five thousand five hundred graphics score on fire strike and then I was getting about a thirty thousand score you know fluctuates a little bit but I was getting here between twenty-nine thousand and thirty thousand on fire strike scores so that's all pretty much the same as what it was when it was yellow now I'm not really seeing any weird temperature fluctuations at all why using the Primo chill fluid time will tell time will tell how that's going to actually work but so far the temperatures are amazing the biggest temperature drop that I noticed quite honestly was the CPU because the old block that I was using the old supremacy block was not it didn't have those channels that were optimized for the X 99 and 2011 - three platform so I change that out with a supremacy Evo when I put in the optimized jet and optimized flow insert for the X 99 platform the 5960 x specifically and my god the temperatures came my my CPU was idling at 40 degrees Celsius prior to doing the update and then under load was hitting about 65 to 69 or 70 C when I was rendering and putting max load on the CPU or doing a 264 but now now with the proper block on there in the proper inserts it idles at 25 C in fact let's check right now I'm gonna I'm gonna look right now and see because I'm kind of curious actually but I want to make sure that I'm not miss quoting I've already done this I've spent a lot of time doing this but I'll make sure I'm not quitting anything as cam takes a few minutes to actually you don't like startup sometimes yeah so the CPU temperature right now is at 28 C 27 C I mean that is pretty crazy that 13 C drop and I'm running the same overclock and the voltage and no it's not running at like crazy low voltage or anything like that the voltage is sitting right now at 1.3 2 volts full-time I don't do the I don't do any of the turbo states where the CPU is allowed to ramp down I leave it running at the full 4.6 at the full voltage 24/7 and it is sitting right now at 1.3 2 volts 4.6 gigahertz 27c idle I am ecstatic about that because that tells me I could probably play around with a little bit more overclocking on this thing and put more voltage in it I pretty sure I'm not going to be able to hit 5 gigahertz table most of these chips don't think like 1% of them made it to 5 gigahertz but whatever I digress I'm super happy with these temperatures the whole room as a whole is cooled down with this setup the way it is so I'm pretty pretty happy I couldn't be any happier now let's talk about the color obviously it is not as lit up and vibrant as it was with the yellow because obviously the pastel yellow was reflecting a lot of the light and it was a bright color but I really like the way this looks now I'm using the NZXT hue plus lighting system in there which is nice because unlike using the lodge assist corner sticks which I was using before they had a lot of LEDs in there and they were super bright and they were not really dimmable you could dim them you could hook them up to say a fan header and kind of reduce that percentage of fan speed which would also reduce the voltage to that header and allow them to dim a little bit but they were not technically dimmable LEDs and it can burn them out I don't think it would damage the fan header I don't want to find out but the NZXT hue plus allows me to not only play with the colors allows me to play with the warmth of the light so I don't have that really bright hyper white although on camera it's going to you know cameras and LED lighting or any lighting for that matter are always really hard to recreate and look accurate not to mention it's going to depend on the way your screen is displaying it so that might look blue it might look purple trust me in person it's a nice warm light very similar to like an incandescent light bulb which is giving it a very nice warm glow in there which is what I wanted because of the burnt orange color that we went with in this system it's on a bright orange it's a very burnt orange as you can see by the color of the fluid it's exactly what I wanted it turned out exactly as I imagined it and by adding the nickel-plated fittings in there it give a nice amount of bling and a nice amount of reflection and vibrance in there without counting on the fluid to do it now before I do these systems and doesn't matter if it's mine or anyone elses I spend a lot of time simply staring at it staring at pictures of it in fact the wife actually asked me if the amount of time I say that I spend on these builds includes the amount of time I spend literally with my feet up on the desk just staring at it before I even did the tubing in this I was sitting over there on my other desk and I was sitting back in my chair just arms folded probably for a solid hour just staring at it to try and visualize I'm a very visualized person I don't do Photoshop I don't I don't sit there and do mock-ups I just do it in my head and then I do the best I can to recreate what I saw as my vision of what would look like an awesome system and put it all into the case and I think it turned out pretty damn good of course it's not absolutely perfect there are some things about it that I don't like like for instance the front panel connectors are red and yellow yeah red and yellow wire that are not sleeved all the way to the end so you can see the tips of that that bothers me a little bit same thing with the USB plug for the hue plus it's like red green and white very Christmas minty colors but you can't really see them too well what what you really can't see it looks phenomenal in here is the cables that were provided by sanctum sleeving sanctum has provided the cables for all of my systems it with the exception of when I had the 900 d that was actually provided by Lou tro and those were extensions but all of the colors and all of the cables that you've seen custom sleeves since then had been provided by joe over at sanctum sleeving and he is like an absolute master when it comes to this I don't have the patience I don't have the time and I certainly don't want to deal with you know quite honestly up my system because I got some terminals incorrect so if you guys want to do some amazing cables in your system you've got to check out sanctum their website is still a work in progress give them some time it's a very low manpower operation and he's got a real time job or full time job that he does this on the side so thanks for hooking me up man I know you don't have a lot of time for that I do wish that the orange sleeving was a little bit darker and a little bit less it's it's not neon but it's definitely bright I wish it was darker that way would match the other orange in the system but I do think it's nice to have different shades of orange in there part of the problem is this is the only color orange available in the type of sleep that we went with I could have gone darker with something like paracord I've dealt with paracord before in bright colors it's terrible with rubber grommets leaving black smudges all over them I dealt with that with the yellow I didn't want to deal with that again so I just went ahead and left it that's one of the reasons why I went with the warmer light on lighting that way it didn't make the it didn't look like cosmic bowling if you will it's not a neon color it just kind of looks like it on camera but it's definitely brighter than the other orange in the system so I do have to give some shoutouts here when it comes to building this system because I can't afford to build these on my own and and I wouldn't get to bring you guys these awesome updates and show you how to do these water cooling systems and loops and custom work if it wasn't for my sponsors and first one first and foremost performance - pcs comm everything you see here for the water loop with the exception of the radiators which they brokered by the way those were sent by hardware labs all the way from the Philippines they sent me everything you guys see the pumps the loops the tubing the fittings the blocks everything came from them including them stepping in and sending me the proper block when I up and got the wrong block for the motherboard which I still have the wrong one and and I don't have any use for that and they can't really resell it because it's been opened so thanks guys for that quite honestly if you're looking for water cooling parts you've got to go and check them out the system looks awesome but there's nothing modded in here the case isnt modded case modding is something I wish I could do so much but I don't have a shop I don't have the tools but check out the mods ooh mmm PC tech Lea Harrington Darth Beavis yeah even though Darth and I had a little bit of a spat he and I are still friends these are that these are modders these are guys who literally take craftsmanship and tools and just make some of the most amazing systems so if you guys want to learn more about not just water cooling but modding like true modding and true craftsmanship that make sure you guys go and check out their stuff too but with all that said it is time to get out of here guys do me a favor hit me up on Twitter or the comments here or something and let me know if you have any questions about the system it's really hard to anticipate what people are going to ask so I try and do the best I can to let you know about the builds before they're done that's one of the reasons why I do the blogs but if you guys have any questions let me know maybe I'll do a follow-up video like a Q&A of why I did this or why I did that because usually every you see here there's an alternative there's something else I could have done and I I chose the way I did it because that's just kind of the way I saw it but maybe there are some questions you guys have about how I did this or whatever again I did videos about the preparation for the system for some vlogs in there as well as some how to bend so even the SLI bridge I have a video there on how I custom painted the SLI bridge how I change the LED color which I think I'm going to leave white by the way I think the white is a really good contrast I tried to make an orange LED using the same film method like the flash film to change the color like I did a yellow only the orange was really hard to recreate I tried yellow and red I tried actual orange film I tried multiple layers it just wasn't turning out right so I'm just gonna leave it white for now anyway guys time to get out of here thanks for following the build log as always hope you guys like the system if not tell me what you would have done differently and cite some reasons why you would do it not just I don't like orange I mean that's a given everyone has their favorite colors I'm sure plenty of you don't like the orange a lot of you said you hated orange but then on Instagram and Twitter told me you changed your mind because you think it looks so good so did I change your mind let me know down in the comments or on social media anyway guys time to get out Titans to get out of here apparently I can't talk it's the new year's Happy New Year you guys have a safe New Year's Eve and I will see you guys in the next video